tool for image building and update

[Adam Young]

On 09/20/2012 10:34 AM, Andy Grimm wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Tomas Karasek <tomas.karasek at cern.ch> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am looking at possibilities of automation of disk image creation (installation) and update.
>>
>> I ran across tools from Aeolus:
>> imagefactory - http://www.aeolusproject.org/imagefactory.html
>> and Oz - http://www.aeolusproject.org/oz.html
>>
>> I noticed Oz is used in Heat too.
>> Is there some other tool I could look at?
>>
> There are lots of tools for image building.  Oz is a bit different
> from most others in that it actually spawns a VM to do an install,
> while most other tools simply use a loopback mounted filesystem.
>
> BoxGrinder would probably be your next choice on Fedora.  BoxGrinder
> uses python-imgcreate, but wraps it in a bunch of ruby code where some
> of the postinstall image tweaking happens.  (Personally, I use
> ami-creator, which is a tiny python script that just subclasses from
> python-imgcreate and implements a few functions to do the necessary
> tweaks... no need for ruby here.)
>
> Andy


You already have a Fedora 18 image with the Live CD:

http://adam.younglogic.com/2012/09/vm-from-live-cd/


>
>> Thanks,
>> Tomas
>>
>>
>>
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